They Know Everything About You
how data-collecting corporations and snooping government agencies are destroying democracy
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
22 February 2016
Summary
In the first week of June 2013, the American people discovered that for a decade, they had abjectly traded their individual privacy for the chimera of national security. The revelation that the federal government has full access to all phone records and the vast trove of presumably private personal data posted on the Internet has brought the threat of a surveillance society to the fore.But the erosion of privacy rights extends far beyond big government. Big business has long played a leading …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781568585185 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1568585187 |
| Author: | Robert Scheer |
| Publisher: | Avalon Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Nation Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | First Trade Paper Edition |
| Release Date: | 22 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 140mm x 20mm |
About The Author
Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer is the editor-in-chief of the Webby award-winning online magazine Truthdig, professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and co-host of Left, Right & centre, a weekly syndicated radio show broadcast from NPR’s west coast affiliate, KCRW. In the 1960s, he was editor of the ground-breaking Ramparts magazine and later was national correspondent and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Scheer is the author of nine books, including The Great American Stickup. He lives in Los Angeles.
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